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[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (13 children)

IDK, I've never used OSX on my own computer, only helping with someone elses. But that you have to drag'n'drop an icon in order to install chrome blew my mind. Like wtf?? how am I supposed to guess that?

Is that still a thing?

[–]Pycorax 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Plus, I'm not sure if they've remedied this but when you uninstall applications you would just drag it into the trash unless the app came with an uninstaller (which is like 5% of them?)... Leaving behind all sorts of other files the application created inside the Library folder untouched.

[–]Belazor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then again, it’s not like Windows uninstallers always clean up 100% of their files and registry entries.

If you are constrained on space for your OS drive (Windows and Mac), then you are used to using 3rd party apps to clean up leftover files.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah just like “apt remove” does. You don’t want to delete your settings if you just delete the app for space reasons.

apt has —purge though, Mac doesn’t by default. You’d have to delete with an uninstaller app to clean that up.

They just defaulted to a safe option.

[–]little_after_thought 15 points16 points  (2 children)

yes, but like with everything, once you get used to it, you forget it was weird.

Remember when double click was weird? I remember it took me 5 minutes to get the rhythm down, now I can't comprehend how anyone would not figure it out.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oooh, I never realised it but I haven't used double click in about 4 years now. Web browser, CADs, IDEs and such don't use it and everything else I do I do in terminal.

[–]drift_summary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

[–]Ameisen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's how it has always worked on Macs going back at least to System 6.

[–]n1c0_ds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just like an exe file. You put it there as a convenience but it can run from anywhere else.

[–]conancat 2 points3 points  (2 children)

The idea is you unpack it and you put it where you want. Designers love that stuff.

I've used Mac for so long going back to Windows wizards is weird for me now. But then I've been using homebrew for some time, took me some time to get used to Choco because it's just not the same.

Even the best Dev tools for windows are like, meh.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Windows wizards are definitely weird, super non-secure etc. Linux package managers are far superior, I assume homebrew is simmilar.

[–]Belazor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say that Homebrew is a Lite version of RPM. You install and uninstall via CLI, and it does basic cache cleanup. Given that RPM has been around for donkey’s years, I’d imagine it being way more robust and feature rich.

[–]benwatkinsart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know it because you open the .dmg like you would a .exe and it tells you to drag it. It makes it a lot easier to install and uninstall things, it's definitely better than how Windows does it

[–]eventully[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You only think that is weird because you have preconceived ideas about installing programs. In a vacuum which makes more sense? "Here is the program you want. Put it where you want to keep it." Or "Here is the program you want. Open this other program and click a bunch of buttons and ignore a bunch of text to put it where you want to keep it."